Seed planter



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P. & F. W. BOXENDALE.

SEED PLANTER.

No. 334,414. Patented Jan. '19, 1886.

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SEED PLANTER.

No. 334.414. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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UMTEDl STATES PATENT @einen PETER BOXENDALE AND FREDERICK W. BOXENDALE, OF FLANAGAN, ILL.

SEED-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,414, dated January 19, 1886.

Application filed April 11, 1885. Serial No. 161,889.

Tol all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER BoxENDALE and FREDERICK W. BoxENDALE, citizens of the United States, residing at Flanagan, in the county of Livingston and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-Planters; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to seed-planters; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described,and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure I is a plan view of a portion of a seed-planter, showing the cutoff and seed-plates. Fig. II is a plan view with the revolving plate which carries the seed-plates removed. Fig. III is a sectional plan view of the rotary plate or droppingplate with the seed-plate removed. Fig. IV is a sectional plan view of the same with a seedplate in place. one of the seed-plates detached. Fig. VI is a sectional detail View of one of the seed-plates, showing the inclines in the seed-openings; and Fig. VII is a sectional detail view through one of the seed-cups, showing the rib in said seed-cup.

The object of our invention is to provide mechanism whereby a uniform number of seeds or kernels may be dropped ateach hill or place of discharge without cutting the seed, as will be herein now fully described.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates a circular revolving plate, which may be revolved in a horizontal plane in the bottom of the seed-hopper by any of the well-known mechanical nieans,such as a shaft and gearing connecting it with the axle. (No gearing is shown herein, as the gearing forms no part of our invention, and any gearing may be used that will impart the neces- Fig. V is a detail view of` (No model.)

to cover said openings B, being let into said l,

openings B so that the face of the revolving plate A and the faces of the seed-plates G will be flush. The seed-plates O have seed-holes D, the holes D corresponding with the number of seed that it is designed shall be dropped in one hill. These seed-holes D have an incline, D-each one of them-and each incline is provided with a central rib, E. These inclines D and ribs E extend rearward from a radial line drawn from the center to the periphery of the plate A, so that the inner ends of the ribs E are forward of the outer ends.

At one side the hopper is provided with a cut-off, F, which is placed directly over the discharge-opening in the bottom of the hopper, and as the plate A revolves, the seedplates,with their filled seed-holes,n1ove under the cut-off F, and the seed is dropped through the seed-discharge opening to the ground. The inclines D cause a gradual separat-ion of the seed into the seed-holes from that resting on the plate as it revolves.

The seed-holes should be made similar in shape to the seed to be planted, and should be of a size to contain but one seed or kernel each.

'Ihe inclines in the seed-holes extend only from the top of the plate to half the depth of the hole. These ribs facilitate the dividing of the seed as the revolving plate, which is exposed to the action of the seed, moves and carries the seed lodged in the holes under the cut-off, to be dropped through the heel of the planting-machine in the usual manner.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is l. A dropping-plate, C, having seed-holes D, with inclines D and ribs E, in combina In testimony Whereofwe atx oursignatures tion with the frame and cut-off, for the purin presence of two Witnesses. pose specified.

2. The combination, with the hopper hav- PETER BOXENDALE. 5 ing a discharge-opening in its bottom and a FREDERICK V. BOXENDALE.

cutoff, F, over said disohargeopening, of the revolving planter-pluto provided with aro- VVibnesses: shaped openings, and the seed-plates C, hav- E. M. SCHRECK, ing seed-holes D, with nclines D and central PETER YORDY. ro ribs, E7 substantially as specied. 

